Database System Concepts
Database System Concepts
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ISBN: 9780078022159
Author: Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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There are n trading posts along a river numbered 1,
2, 3, ..., n. At any of the posts you can rent a canoe
to be returned at any other post downstream. (It is
impossible to paddle against the river, since it is too
fast..) For each possible departure point i and each
possible arrival point j (> i), the cost of a rental from i
to j is known: it is C[i,j] > 0. However, it can happen
that the cost of renting from i to j is higher than the
total costs of a series of shorter rentals from i to j. In
this case you can return the first canoe at some post
k between i and j and continue your journey in a
second (and, maybe, third, fourth ...) canoe. There is
no extra charge for changing canoes in this way.
Give a O(n2) time dynamic programming algorithm
to determine the minimum cost of a trip from
trading post 1 to trading post n.
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Transcribed Image Text:There are n trading posts along a river numbered 1, 2, 3, ..., n. At any of the posts you can rent a canoe to be returned at any other post downstream. (It is impossible to paddle against the river, since it is too fast..) For each possible departure point i and each possible arrival point j (> i), the cost of a rental from i to j is known: it is C[i,j] > 0. However, it can happen that the cost of renting from i to j is higher than the total costs of a series of shorter rentals from i to j. In this case you can return the first canoe at some post k between i and j and continue your journey in a second (and, maybe, third, fourth ...) canoe. There is no extra charge for changing canoes in this way. Give a O(n2) time dynamic programming algorithm to determine the minimum cost of a trip from trading post 1 to trading post n.
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